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This is more than a coincidence: the quotation gets to the heart of the cultural moment. Both movies demonstrate that powerful leaders?? human flaws inevitably instigate tragic consequences that cause succession. As their respective countries turn against President Bush and Tony Blair for overreaching their authority on failed quests—particularly the “War on Terror”—these films seem perfectly timed. But the relationship between the political reality and the cinematic representation of leadership uncertainty seems surprisingly elliptical for Hollywood, particularly during the last few years...
...first glance, it seems as though we might have reached the point where our leaders?? plight has become so pathetic that they are no longer demagogues who provoke our anger, but tragic figures that engender our sympathy. These characters’ actions are too destructive to be completely sympathetic, leading toward a more cynical interpretation. Humanity is inevitably going to produce human leaders who will provoke terrible consequences, usually due to their mistaken assumptions regarding the necessary actions to preserve their rule...
...remains sluggish, the discussion about the future of General Education will continue to be monopolized by faculty. A handful of UC reps, operating with their own political objectives in mind, are a paltry excuse for an undergraduate voice in the process of curricular reform; in the face of our leaders?? passivity, it’s up to the College as a whole to make itself a part of the process. The time...
...country’s foreign policy toward the Middle East, an issue likely to cause some changing allegiances during the upcoming elections. Since the Second World War, America’s stated economic and geo-political objectives in the region have often occasioned ethical memory-lapses by U.S. leaders??overthrowing democratically elected governments, supplying dictators with chemical weapons, supporting Islamic fundamentalism...
...phrase in Macbeth properly summarizes Latin America’s difficulties with democracy: “vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself” and clouds leaders?? minds when annoying electoral results or too rigid constitutions come between them and power. And just like Macbeth, Latin America’s patriarchs lose sight of their humanity through equivocating terms and definitions...